求

Translingual

Han character

求 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈十水 (IJE), four-corner 4313₂)

Descendants

• 𛀱

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 604, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17105
• Dae Jaweon: page 998, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1547, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6C42

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		求

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 求
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (求) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
救	*kus
求	*ɡu
球	*ɡu
逑	*ɡu
賕	*ɡu
蛷	*ɡu
莍	*ɡu
殏	*ɡu
梂	*ɡu
俅	*ɡu
脙	*ɡu, *qʰu
絿	*ɡu
銶	*ɡu
毬	*ɡu
捄	*ɡu, *ko
觩	*ɡu

Pictogram (象形) - fur coat.

Jiajie (假借) - The character was subsequently borrowed for a near-homophone meaning "to request", and the original meaning came to be represented by 裘 (OC *ɡʷɯ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 求

1. to seek; to look for

   求《月亮代表我的心》的歌詞 [MSC, trad.]
   求《月亮代表我的心》的歌词 [MSC, simp.]

   qiú “Yuèliàng Dàibiǎo Wǒ de Xīn” de gēcí [Pinyin]

   looking for the lyrics to "The Moon Represents My Heart"

2. to beg; to request; to implore

   求他別走／求他别走  ―  qiú tā bié zǒu  ―  begged for him to not leave

3. to request; to ask for
4. to require; to demand
5. to covet; to seek (fame, riches)
6. to attract
7. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

求

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. request, wish

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: もとめる (motomeru, 求める, Jōyō); もとむ (motomu, 求む); まぐ (magu, 求ぐ)

Compounds

Compounds

• 求人
• 請求
• 要求
• 求愛

Proper noun

求(もとむ) • (Motomu) 

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

求 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 求 (cầu)

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